How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web page hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)

Are you growing baffled? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A sheer absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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