How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:

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