How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all webspace hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover 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)
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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting providers:

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