How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current site hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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)

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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