How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all site hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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