How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to mention the complete lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...