How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current site hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides 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 presumably met most site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We positively are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the avid users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...