How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely 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 domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We undeniably are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel sections to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting suppliers:

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