How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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)

Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!

Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Problem Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:

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