How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weak Point No.2: The same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:

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