How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
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 disorientated? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete shortage of domain management tools

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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