How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 perplexed? We certainly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, 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? Mind that one as well...