How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough lack of domain management menus

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

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