How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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