How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

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 refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP departments to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:

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