How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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