How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all webspace hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Downside Number 2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Drawback No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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