How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful 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)
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)
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 getting confused? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Downside No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to get familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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