How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:

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