How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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 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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Weakness No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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