How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all web space hosting industry preconditions. 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 domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully 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 domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent 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)
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 nonplussed? We surely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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