How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful 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)

Are you becoming baffled? We positively are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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