How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web site hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

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

Are you getting confused? We absolutely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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