How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Weak Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to cite the total lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name 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 hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

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