How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages 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 fulfilled most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely 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 easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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 baffled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Sign No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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