How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all website hosting business 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 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 confused? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Negative Sign Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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