How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

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

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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