How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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