How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...