How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting vendors:

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