How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 perplexed? We undeniably are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Drawback No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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