How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer lack of domain management options

Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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