How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully 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 domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 growing confused? We clearly are!

Drawback No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.

Problem Number 3: An utter lack of domain name management options

Do we have to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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