How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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