How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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