How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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 fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: An absolute lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

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