How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 absolutely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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