How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons 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 possibly answered most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...