How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web page hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

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

Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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