How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete 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 domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP areas to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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