How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We positively are!

Drawback No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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