How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 confused? We undeniably are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Downside Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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