How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all site hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration sections

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:

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