How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:

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