How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...