How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Weak Side No.3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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