How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 puzzled? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the keen users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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