How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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)
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 baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number 3: A total shortage of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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