How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up 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 located 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. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management sections

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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