How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting providers in existence. 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 absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 growing baffled? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire absence of domain name management tools

Do we need to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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