How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

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

Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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