How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web space hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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, because they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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