How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the complete absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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