How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a big weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:

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