How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web space hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web page hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully 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 quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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