How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most site hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Weakness No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management user interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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