How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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