How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole site hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 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 growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management options

Do we have to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:

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