How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully 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 quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!

Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Inconvenience No.3: An utter lack of domain name administration sections

Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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