How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Downside No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:

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