How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all webspace hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully 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 easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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)
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)
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 becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete lack of domain management GUIs

Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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