How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web page hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 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 growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same email folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Point No.3: A total shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:

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