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 today's web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful 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 domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you getting confused? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Weak Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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