How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web page hosting solution

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

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 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 disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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