How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting 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 located 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 perplexed? We surely are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Problem Number 3: A complete absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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