How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

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

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely 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 quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous 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 name)
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 baffled? We categorically are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management options

Do we have to cite the total absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Drawback No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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