How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent 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)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Predicament No.2: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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