How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire lack of domain management tools

Do we need to cite the complete absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:

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