How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web site hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great 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)
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 clearly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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