How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)

Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:

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