How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: 120+ hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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