How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy 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 famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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