How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
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 disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Downside Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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