How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: An entire lack of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting distributors:

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