How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the complete lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

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

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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