How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 undeniably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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