How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all site hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number Three: An utter lack of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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