How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most webspace hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story 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: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, 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 hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 getting bewildered? We surely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management tools

Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting distributors:

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