How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 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 growing confused? We definitely are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:

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