How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 surely are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:

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