How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful 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 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 growing baffled? We definitely are!

Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Problem No.3: A total absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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