How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web site hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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