How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 unquestionably are!

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

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Downside Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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