How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar 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 are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...