How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web space hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Predicament Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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