How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web space hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Problem Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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