How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming nonplussed? We positively are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impudent 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...