How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. 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 website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 getting confused? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete lack of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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