How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute absence of domain name management sections

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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