How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web space hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic 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 name)
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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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