How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, 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 web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing 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)
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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We positively are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Drawback Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP areas to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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