How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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 getting confused? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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