How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to point out the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:

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