How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 getting bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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