How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 name folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ site hosting CP sections to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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