How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most webspace hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 confused? We surely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 Control Panel sections to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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