How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder setup

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

Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (particularly devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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