How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, 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, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 becoming bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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