How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: A total lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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