How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most webspace hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to get to know... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:

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