How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web page hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web page hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A moronic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 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 confused? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness No.3: An utter shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to mention the total lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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