How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most webspace hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 getting bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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