How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web page hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Drawback No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent 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 know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...