How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, 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 hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 becoming bewildered? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the eager users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

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