How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 very simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weakness No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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