How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web space hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Point No.3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...