How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful 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 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)
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 growing perplexed? We surely are!

Predicament Number 2: The same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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