How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Predicament No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain management options

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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