How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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 confused? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...