How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most webspace hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 server, since they all are located 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

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

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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