How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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)
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 confused? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:

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