How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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