How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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)

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast

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

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

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