How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 absolutely are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Predicament Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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