How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web page hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 bewildered? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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