How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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