How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web page hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...