How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands 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 uniquely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing confused? We certainly are!

Problem Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number Three: An utter lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting companies:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...