How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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 domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We surely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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