How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Downside Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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