How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web space hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 positively are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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