How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete 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 domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing bewildered? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Drawback Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the total lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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