How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 puzzled? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...