How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 certainly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

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

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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