How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most site hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, 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 web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: An utter absence of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

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

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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