How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Weakness No.3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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