How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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