How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic 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)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Downside No.3: A total shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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