How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web space hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 becoming disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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