How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...