How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 bewildered? We categorically are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: A total shortage of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:

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