How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 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 nonplussed? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Problem No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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