How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Drawback Number 3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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