How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke 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 positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 growing confused? We positively are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoicing system (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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