How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting firms:

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