How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
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 growing confused? We undeniably are!

Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Downside No.3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting distributors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...