How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 surely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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