How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete fully 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 domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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