How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. 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 site hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most webspace hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire absence of domain management menus

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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