How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 baffled? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to point out the complete absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, based on the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP areas to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting suppliers:

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