How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 positively are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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