How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Problem Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ site hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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