How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 getting baffled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Predicament No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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