How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most site hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 CP departments to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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