How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 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 getting nonplussed? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing platform (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...