How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 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 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 undoubtedly are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... promptly

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

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

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