How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 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)

Are you getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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