How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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