How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are situated 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 growing confused? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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