How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web site hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:

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