How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Downside Number 2: The very same mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Downside No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting distributors:

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