How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Side No.3: An entire shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Problem Number 4: Many login places (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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