How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good 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)
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 getting confused? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration sections

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, based on the billing system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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