How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 getting bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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