How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most webspace hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 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 growing confused? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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