How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback No.2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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