How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all webspace hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove 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 quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)
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 bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:

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