How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most site hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the web server, because 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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