How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 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 unquestionably are!

Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

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

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

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