How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the hosting server, since they all are located 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. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weak Point Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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