How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 growing perplexed? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Predicament Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management sections

Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to grasp... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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