How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics 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 take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting companies:

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