How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all site hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase 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 very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 undoubtedly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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