How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Check for yourself how good 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 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 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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:

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