How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" 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 web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all webspace hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 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 growing confused? We positively are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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