How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:

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