How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web page hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 name)
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 undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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