How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web page hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase fully 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 very simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Problem No.3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the avid customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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