How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Problem Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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