How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one 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...

200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Downside Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 CP areas to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...