How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 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 confused? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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