How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Predicament Number 3: A complete absence of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to pick up... fast

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

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

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