How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 growing confused? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:

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