How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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