How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Downside No.3: An entire absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

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