How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)

Are you growing puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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