How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. See for yourself how good 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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