How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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