How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 name)
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 growing puzzled? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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