How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web page hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe 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)
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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Downside No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting distributors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...