How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web page hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...