How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the web 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A complete lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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