How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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