How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: An entire lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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