How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 growing baffled? We positively are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, 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? Mark that one too...