How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 getting puzzled? We surely are!

Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Drawback Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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