How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing 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 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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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