How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:

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