How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web site hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 growing confused? We absolutely are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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