How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Side No.2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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