How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove 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, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 getting baffled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: A total lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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