How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered all webspace hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point No.3: A complete absence of domain name administration menus

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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