How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful 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 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 growing disorientated? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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