How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 delete on the web server, because they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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