How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth 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 sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Check 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)
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 bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A complete lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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