How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all webspace hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Weak Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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