How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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)
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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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