How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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