How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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