How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Downside No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, 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...