How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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 modish and probably answered most hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic 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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We surely are!

Drawback No.2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: A complete absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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