How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

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

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Downside Number Three: A complete absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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