How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most webspace hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Problem Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting service providers:

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