How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely 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%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all site hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain 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 cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 getting puzzled? We surely are!

Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain management menus

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:

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