How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 becoming confused? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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