How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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