How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete completely 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 growing confused? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the eager users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

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