How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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