How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific 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 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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: A total shortage of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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