How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web site hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 getting baffled? We clearly are!

Downside No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration sections

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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