How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The 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 chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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