How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web page hosting market preconditions. 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...

Shortcoming No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

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