How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...