How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: 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 page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Predicament No.3: A total lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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