How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all webspace hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are created 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 confused? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:

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