How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)

Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Sign No.3: An entire lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we have to mention the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:

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