How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 getting baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Negative Sign Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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