How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: 120+ web page hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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