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 contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most web site hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Drawback Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Problem Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, 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? Mind that one as well...