How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web space hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:

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