How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web page hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you getting baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration options

Do we need to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:

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