How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth 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-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting baffled? We clearly are!

Weakness No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:

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