How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web page hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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 growing baffled? We surely are!

Negative Point No.2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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