How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web page hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

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

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: An entire lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with 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 web hosting firms:

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