How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We definitely are!

Problem No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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