How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 getting bewildered? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we have to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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