How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 becoming confused? We surely are!

Drawback No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A total shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting company. At times, depending on the billing system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:

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