How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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 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 getting confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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