How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 confused? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Predicament No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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