How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully 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 simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing 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)
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 growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting vendors:

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