How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web space hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We definitely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely insolent 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? Mind that one too...