How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all site hosting industry 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...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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