How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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