How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most site hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting 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 placed 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. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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