How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 getting baffled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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