How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

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

Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...