How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely 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 very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A complete lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to mention the total lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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