How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web 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 space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since 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 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. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 getting disorientated? We positively are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

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