How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:

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