How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web page hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are placed 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 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. Examine for yourself how amazing 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 name)
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)
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 perplexed? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management tools

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, 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...