How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, 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, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 perplexed? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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