How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)

Are you getting perplexed? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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