How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big 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 upsides and downsides 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 possibly answered most hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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