How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 growing confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting providers:

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