How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most web page hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:

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