How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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 growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

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

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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