How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)
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 growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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