How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 perplexed? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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