How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

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

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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