How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Side Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting corporations:

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