How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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