How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 getting disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:

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