How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web space hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... 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? Remark that one as well...