How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how amazing 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 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 becoming bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter shortage of domain administration sections

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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