How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web space hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful 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)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

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

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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