How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all webspace 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...

Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number 2: The same email folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer lack of domain administration tools

Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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