How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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