How does cpanel-based website hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . 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 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We surely are!

Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Problem Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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