How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

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

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 confused? We positively are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter lack of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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