How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...