How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Downside Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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