How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web 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 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 getting puzzled? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Problem Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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