How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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