How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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 perplexed? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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