How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the complete absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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