How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's web page hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 baffled? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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