How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: An entire shortage of domain management options

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting distributors:

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