How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

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