How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, 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, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)
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 becoming confused? We positively are!

Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.

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

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...