How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 growing nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

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

What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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