How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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