How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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 domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

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

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: An absolute lack of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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