How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)
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 puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Inconvenience No.3: A complete lack of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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