How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 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 located)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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