How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present site hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely 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 space hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web page hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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 trendy and probably fulfilled most web space hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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