How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most webspace hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 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 disorientated? We absolutely are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Drawback No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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