How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:

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