How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: A total shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting vendors:

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