How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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. Check for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 name)
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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:

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