How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely 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 simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weakness No.3: A total shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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