How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web site hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 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 getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Predicament Number 3: An entire absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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