How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

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

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors 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 brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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 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 definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A total lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:

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