How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most site hosting market requirements. 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...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 becoming baffled? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

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

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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