How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

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

Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign No.3: A total shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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