How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Many login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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