How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web page hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 certainly are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ Control Panel sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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