How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

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

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: A total lack of domain name administration options

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the avid clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:

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