How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all web space hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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