How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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