How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web page hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately 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...