How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove entirely 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 quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 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 growing bewildered? We surely are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Problem Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting company. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting companies:

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