How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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