How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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 good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...