How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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