How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web page hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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