How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough absence of domain management sections

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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