How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ CP areas to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting providers:

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