How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.

Weak Point No.3: A thorough shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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