How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all webspace hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We absolutely are!

Problem Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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