How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

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

Weakness Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 getting perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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