How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on today's hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web site hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 becoming puzzled? We surely are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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