How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine 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)
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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Inconvenience No.3: A sheer absence of domain management options

Do we have to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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