How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely 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 simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)
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 growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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