How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting companies:

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