How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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)

Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: An entire lack of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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