How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all site hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 puzzled? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: A complete absence of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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