How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We clearly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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