How does cpanel-based web hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:

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