How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, 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: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We surely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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