How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's 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 site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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 growing bewildered? We surely are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain name management options

Do we have to mention the total absence of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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