How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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