How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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