How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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 server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 confused? We definitely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Drawback No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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