How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 growing confused? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number Three: A total lack of domain name management tools

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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