How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web 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 placed 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. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Problem No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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