How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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