How does cpanel-based website hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly 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 entire web space hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, since they all are located 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing 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 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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