How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 bewildered? We surely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting firms:

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