How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web page hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite 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 popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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 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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Predicament Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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