How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web space hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We positively are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A complete shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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