How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all webspace hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)

Are you growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: An utter lack of domain name management tools

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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