How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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