How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number Three: An utter absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...