How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the earnest customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:

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