How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely 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 very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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 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 becoming puzzled? We certainly are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Side No.3: An utter lack of domain name administration options

Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:

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