How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely 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 two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 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 becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weak Side No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management sections

Do we need to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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