How does cpanel-based site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We positively are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: An entire lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting service providers:

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