How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all site hosting industry 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 domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely 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 very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 confused? We categorically are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weakness No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP areas to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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