How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing 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 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 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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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