How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web space hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)

Are you getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration tools

Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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