How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting bewildered? We definitely are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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