How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing 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 hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly

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

With all due appreciation, 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? Mark that one as well...