How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...