How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic 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 pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web space hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete 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 very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 becoming baffled? We surely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: A complete lack of domain management menus

Do we need to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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