How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting bewildered? We absolutely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration sections

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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