How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 getting perplexed? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:

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