How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely 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 domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 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 name)

Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious 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 hosting distributors:

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