How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web space hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: An entire lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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