How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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 baffled? We categorically are!

Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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