How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to cite the complete absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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