How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful 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 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)

Are you getting confused? We surely are!

Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: A total absence of domain name management menus

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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