How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web space hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 growing baffled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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