How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals 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 occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Drawback No.3: A complete shortage of domain management tools

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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