How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web page hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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