How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: An absolute absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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