How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most webspace hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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 confused? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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