How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer absence of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP sections to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...