How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just 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 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple 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 famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ site hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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