How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: A total lack of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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