How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete 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 simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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