How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Problem Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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