How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 baffled? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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