How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A laughable domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully 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 domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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