How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great 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)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Problem No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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