How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 growing baffled? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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