How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. 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 web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most web hosting business requirements. 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 domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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