How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

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

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: A thorough absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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