How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)

Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...