How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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