How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 definitely are!

Problem Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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