How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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 name)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We positively are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than 120 Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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