How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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