How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all web page hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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 becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Shortcoming No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 CP areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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