How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:

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