How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Examine for yourself how terrific 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 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 name)

Are you growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Drawback No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: 120+ site hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:

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