How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole site hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness No.3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the keen users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant 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 know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...