How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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