How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove 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 domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Predicament Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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