How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very 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 mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Problem Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...