How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: An utter lack of domain management options

Do we need to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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