How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side Number Three: A total shortage of domain administration tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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