How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally 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 webspace hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web page hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:

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