How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web space hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove 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 easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing 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)
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 unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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