How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 getting bewildered? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...