How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most webspace hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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 getting confused? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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