How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, 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 placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific 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)
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)
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 growing bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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