How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute absence of domain administration options

Do we have to refer to the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting corporation. At times, based on the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting companies:

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