How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully 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 domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:

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