How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all webspace hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: A complete absence of domain administration sections

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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