How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good 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)
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)

Are you growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire lack of domain management menus

Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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