How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very 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 very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 bewildered? We certainly are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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