How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 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 perplexed? We positively are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...