How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all site hosting market prerequisites. 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 domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since 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 located 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Drawback Number Three: A total shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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