How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how amazing 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 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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

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

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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