How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:

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