How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 confused? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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