How does cpanel web site hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully 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 simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

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

Problem Number 2: The same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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