How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely 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 delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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 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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:

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