How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully 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 quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
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 bewildered? We categorically are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: A total absence of domain administration menus

Do we need to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting CP menus to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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