How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely 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 quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful 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 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)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number Three: A total shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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