How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web site hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 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 becoming disorientated? We positively are!

Problem Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Problem Number 3: An utter lack of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ Control Panel areas to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:

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