How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web page hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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)

Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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