How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase fully 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 domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 confused? We undoubtedly are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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