How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 web server, since they all are situated 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 becoming disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:

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