How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand 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 unique web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web site hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We definitely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...