How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)

Are you getting puzzled? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Side No.3: A thorough lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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