How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 perplexed? We definitely are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting vendors:

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