How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web page hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific 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)

Are you getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:

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