How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web page hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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