How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web page hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Side Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting suppliers:

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