How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Side Number 3: A sheer lack of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

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