How Does cPanel-based Site Hosting Work?

cPanel-based website hosting or... cPanel-based web site hosting?!?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a website hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all a piece of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web space hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete fully 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 quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent 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 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 getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A complete absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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