How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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 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 confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Disadvantage No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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