How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 confused? We categorically are!

Problem Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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