How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 confused? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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