How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A total absence of domain name administration tools

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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