How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Downside Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...