How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number 3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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