How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 bewildered? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration options

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

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