How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since 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 located 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 bewildered? We clearly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the utter lack of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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