How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web space hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 growing confused? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

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

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to grasp... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting companies:

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