How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management options

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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