How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 name)
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 growing nonplussed? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: An absolute absence of domain management interfaces

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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