How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most web site hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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