How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely 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 quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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...