How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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