How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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