How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web space hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting distributors:

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