How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all webspace hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase 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 quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 growing confused? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number Three: An entire shortage of domain management menus

Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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