How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We certainly are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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