How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 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 baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Shortcoming No.3: A thorough lack of domain management tools

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's quite 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...