How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 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 becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: An utter absence of domain name administration options

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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