How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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