How does cpanel-based hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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