How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web page hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, 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 server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We certainly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: An utter shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:

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