How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web space hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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