How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely 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 site hosting offers on the whole site hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...