How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 created 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 located 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 good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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