How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 name)

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder system

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Side No.3: An entire absence of domain management menus

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Problem Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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