How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)

Are you growing confused? We definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Negative Sign No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...