How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web page hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We certainly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Drawback Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

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