How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Predicament No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...