How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.

Drawback No.3: An entire lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: 120+ Control Panel menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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