How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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