How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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