How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web page hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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 confused? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration options

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ CP menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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