How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Weakness Number 2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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