How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 becoming confused? We categorically are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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