How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web space hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove 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 easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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)
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 puzzled? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain name management tools

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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