How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 perplexed? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to learn... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

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