How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)

Are you getting bewildered? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain administration menus

Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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