How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web space hosting market preconditions. 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 domain names...

Downside Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:

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