How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: 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 whole hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 baffled? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Downside No.3: A total lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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