How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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