How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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