How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting companies:

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