How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most web space hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
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 absolutely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:

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