How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 growing confused? We surely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

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

What about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting vendors:

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