How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 growing bewildered? We positively are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Problem No.3: A complete lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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? Mind that one as well...