How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most web site hosting market prerequisites. 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...

Problem Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 becoming nonplussed? We certainly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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