How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An utter absence of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...