How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web page hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number 3: A total lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...