How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing 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)
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 puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting suppliers:

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