How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally 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 web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web page hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 erase on the 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Downside Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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