How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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