How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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 quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific 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)
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)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to learn... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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