How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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