How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 getting puzzled? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Disadvantage Number Three: A total absence of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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