How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fantastic 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 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)
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 doubtlessly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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