How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web page hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 getting disorientated? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP departments to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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