How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete completely 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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