How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)

Are you growing bewildered? We absolutely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Weak Side No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...