How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most web space hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

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 next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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