How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting suppliers:

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