How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed 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 placed 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. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 bewildered? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough lack of domain administration sections

Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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