How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense 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 strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 name)
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 becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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