How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web site hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
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)

Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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