How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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