How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the avid users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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