How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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)

Are you getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Drawback Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration sections

Do we have to point out the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weakness No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:

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