How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: A complete absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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