How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web page hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Predicament Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...