How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing 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 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)

Are you getting perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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