How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web site hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 getting puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Sign No.3: A total lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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