How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page 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 space hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how amazing 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration tools

Do we need to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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