How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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