How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting corporations:

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