How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most web page hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 nonplussed? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Problem No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...