How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web space hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 confused? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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