How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 web server, since they all are set up 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:

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