How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all hosting business preconditions. 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 domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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