How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 bewildered? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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