How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the site 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 web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web space hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to learn... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:

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