How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:

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