How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the entire absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:

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