How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming baffled? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: A total lack of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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