How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally 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 web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web space hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

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