How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to cite the total shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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