How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, 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 hosting 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent 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)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Downside No.2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management menus

Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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