How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most webspace hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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