How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting confused? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Disadvantage Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ site hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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