How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 confused? We definitely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Predicament Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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