How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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)
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 unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Drawback No.3: An utter shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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