How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the keen users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:

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