How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed 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 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. Discover 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)
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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:

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