How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 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 becoming puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete lack of domain administration tools

Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Problem No.4: Multiple login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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