How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most webspace hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)
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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting vendors:

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