How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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