How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Negative Point No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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