How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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