How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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)

Are you growing baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total absence of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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