How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific 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)
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 growing puzzled? We certainly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management sections

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...