How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good 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)
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 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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Predicament No.3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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