How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting providers:

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