How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web page hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness No.3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to mention the total lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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