How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all webspace hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific 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 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 getting nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Negative Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

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