How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's site hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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