How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good 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 name)
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 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 unquestionably are!

Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very 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? Note that one too...