How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 baffled? We positively are!

Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:

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