How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most site hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to point out the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:

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