How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Drawback No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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