How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 getting nonplussed? We positively are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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